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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:56:22 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/23/2009 05:45 PM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
>>
>> At this point my personal suggestion would be jsonrpc:
>>
>> - it's easy to parse (even in C)
>> - it's text with markup
>> - easy to generate
>> - support utf-8
>> - quoted string
>> - it's not ugly to read (compare to xml)
>> - can be embedded directly (no more library dependancy for qemu) in 
>> the code
>> - lots of language have json library making the interaction with the 
>> monitor
>>    easy from the other side
>>    
>
> - supports passing structure
> - supports notifications
> - supports asynchronous commands
>
> seems quite nice.

I'd rather not do json.

As they stand, I think the current patch set is very close to being 
mergable.  I'd rather not go off on a new tangent.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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Regards,

Anthony Liguori